Archive for July, 2011

RSC Publishing 2012 Pricing Announcement

We’re well-known at RSC Publishing for delivering high impact content for chemical scientists.

What’s not quite so well known is the significant growth in high quality content we’ve achieved – over 150% growth in the last three years.  Working with our customers and authors, we have embarked on a significant project to increase the volume of quality international content we publish. This growth has been supported by well thought out price increases reflective of customer feedback, increases in costs related to the growth in quality content, and changes in the global economy.

The RSC Publishing Price List 2012 demonstrates this commitment. Please be sure to review the changes in this blog, especially regarding new subscription titles and package changes.

And because we’re part of a learned society and a not-for-profit publisher, you have the reassurance that any surplus we make from our publishing is reinvested back into the scientific community across the globe – funding key projects like ChemSpider, our free chemical structure database.

RSC Publishing Highlights 2011

We have been working hard towards delivering high quality global content in our resources, including a wider reach to the international community. Some highlights resulting from our efforts include:

RSC Published Impact Factors Growth in RSC Published Articles

  • We’ll publish 20,000 articles in 2011, an increase of over 50%
  • We’re truly international70+ countries contributing published articles
  • Significant growth in published articles from USA, China, UK, Germany, Japan, France and Spain
  • Editorial board members from 35 countries
  • Offices in China, India, Japan, UK and USA
  • 37% increase in 2011 usage
RSC Published Articles RSC 2010 ISI Impact Factor Success

  • Of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category, five are from RSC Publishing
  • 2010 average impact factor is 5.4 (ISI average for a chemistry journal is 2.54)*
  • 83% of our journals have an impact factor over 3 

RSC Publishing Package Changes

We’ve taken time to review our current packages and have revised them for a more simplified approach and collaborative offering.  Now known as Collections, the changes are detailed below:

Package New Name Resources Added Details
RSC Gold RSC Gold Chemical Science, Food & Function, MedChemComm and Polymer Chemistry  
A+ Package A+ Chemical Science No longer available for new subscribers however can be renewed by existing customers
A Package A Chemical Science
K Package K  
B Core Chemistry Collection Chemical Science  
E General Chemistry Collection Chemical Science and Chemistry World  
F Annual Reports Collection    
G, H, I, J and  L     Discontinued, existing customers will be able to migrate to the new Analytical Science Collection
  Analytical Science Collection   Contains Analyst, Analytical Abstracts, Analytical Methods, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry and Journal of Environmental Monitoring

RSC Publishing Price List 2012

New subscription titles for 2012 include:

  • Chemical Science
  • MedChemComm
  • Food & Function
  • Polymer Chemistry

The RSC Publishing Price List 2012 is also available to download if you prefer an electronic copy
GO TO www.rsc.org/pricing

Pricing Questions?

For more information on reviewing usage and subscribing to new content, upgrading to RSC Gold or discussing your current subscriptions, please contact your RSC Account Manager or your local subscription agent and we will happily help.

EMAIL sales@rsc.org
quoting marketing reference code P11009a

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Revised Impact Factor figures

Revised Impact Factor figures for Nanoscale (4.109) and Analytical Methods (1.036) have now been released by Thomson Reuters, who provided us with the statement below. All other RSC journal Impact Factors remain the same.

“The journals NANOSCALE and ANALYTICAL METHODS were accepted for inclusion in the Thomson Reuters Citation Indexes in the year 2010. Indexing of the titles was made retroactive to 2009 in order to include the content of Volume 1, 2009 for each title so that our coverage would span all content published by the journal from its launch, as well as to issue a Journal Impact Factor as quickly as possible. This additional back year of coverage resulted in the under-counting of citable items during JCR production equivalent to the content of one 2009 issue for each journal. This anomaly prevented the appearance of the journals in the first release of the JCR. Our remedy was to by-pass the JCR output and use raw data to create a Journal Impact Factor for our Notices file. The Journal Impact Factor, however, was missing some of the year 2009 content, resulting in a significant over-estimation of the final value. We regret this error and appreciate the cooperation of the Royal Society of Chemistry in noting the corrected data.”

Please disregard the figures for Nanoscale and Analytical Methods that were released in news published prior to July 15th 2011.

The revised list of all RSC Journal Impact Factors is:

Journal 2010 Impact Factor 5-Year Impact Factor
Analyst 3.913 3.843
Analytical Methods 1.036 1.036
Chemical Communications (ChemComm) 5.787 5.581
Chemical Society Reviews 26.583 24.641
CrystEngComm 4.006 4.106
Dalton Transactions 3.647 3.654
Energy & Environmental Science 9.446 9.446
Faraday Discussions 4.538 4.267
Green Chemistry 5.472 6.056
Integrative Biology 4.439 4.439
JAAS (Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry) 4.372 3.480
Journal of Environmental Monitoring 1.810 2.083
Journal of Materials Chemistry 5.099 5.441
Lab on a Chip 6.260 6.927
Metallomics 3.592 3.592
Molecular BioSystems 3.825 3.986
Nanoscale 4.109 4.109
Natural Product Reports 8.881 8.865
New Journal of Chemistry 2.631 2.792
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 3.451 3.321
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2.378 2.505
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) 3.453 3.858
Soft Matter 4.457 5.080
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Gold 24 carat scientific research

       

 

 
How does GOLD enrich cutting edge science through technical application?      

 

 
To celebrate gold’s role in science and technology in the International Year of Chemistry, the World Gold Council and the RSC have teamed up to develop a unique ‘microsite’ offering FREE ACCESS to some of the RSC’s best gold-related publications until the end of 2011. There is a spread of historical and cutting-edge papers, spanning catalysis, chemistry, nanotechnology and novel materials.
 
 
 
 
 
 

When you ask someone what comes into their mind when you say the word ‘gold’, the responses you receive rarely offers any surprise. Jewellery is probably at the forefront of most people’s mind, along with various examples of gold’s role in the world of finance. Words such as ‘science’, ‘technology’ and (most definitely) ‘chemistry’ rarely get a mention.

This, perhaps, is not a surprise. To most people’s mind gold is eternal – the ultimate preserver of wealth, a constant typified by the jewellery many of us wear often throughout our entire lives. Physical sciences such as chemistry on the other hand are all about change – manipulating the elements to generate useful materials. How could gold play a role in chemistry?

Of course, scientists now know that gold exhibits rich chemistry under certain conditions. 100 years ago Rutherford unravelled the structure of the atom with his famous ‘gold foil’ experiments. Even longer ago, Faraday correctly described the true nature of colloidal gold. Since then, the link between gold and chemistry has grown stronger by the decade.

From catalysis to novel chemicals to nanotechnology, researchers have continually identified new uses for the metal, building on the discoveries of the past. We invite you to take a look through the collection, and we hope you find something relevant to your area of research.

Dr Trevor Keel, World Gold Council
Professor Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University
Discover the GOLD today… 100 FREE RESEARCH ARTICLES
Visit www.rsc.org/gold100 – User name wgc – Password wgc
 
 
 
 

 

 Other RSC GOLD links of interest:

•    Chemistry World Gold Podcast with Johnny Ball”

•    Visual Elements: Gold

•    Gold catalysis in the news

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